Who: moe.
When: March 2, 2001
Where: Landmark Theater/Syracuse, NY
With: Ben, Adam
Of Note: first moe. show!!!, the nine hours of driving it took me to pick up Adam
I went out with this boy Ben on and off for three years at the end of high school/beginning of college. Ben and I were young, impetuous, infatuated as you are at that age, and later incredibly destructive. We went on to become friends, until his next girlfriend didn't allow it anymore. (That always happens, right?) Anyway, Ben is also responsible for some of my live music obsession. Around the time we started dating, he lost God and found Phish. I suspect his parents blamed me for this, though, I really had nothing to do with it.
Anyway, it was my freshman year of college. I was at UB and Ben was still in Corning. I went home one week-end to visit and when I walked into his house, he said, "Stop. You have to hear this. You are going to LOVE it." And, he played moe.'s 'St. Augustine'. I know moe. purists will later vilify this song, but I was floored. I remember likening it to, "Phish meets Third Eye Blind and pop". I was smitten.
Ben got tickets for us to see moe. in Syracuse on the Friday of my spring break. We were going to take his best friend Adam with us, which meant that I needed to leave UB, drive to Houghton to pick up Adam, then drive to Corning where we'd meet Ben and drive to Syracuse. I must have had faulty directions or something because it took me FOREVER to get there. In any event, we finally made it to Corning and then Syracuse in plenty of time.
The room was hot. Before the show started they had crazy lounge versions of songs like, 'Closer' and 'Wrong Way'. I thought that was hilarious. I felt like it was FOREVER before the show started. But when it did.... I remember being enchanted with 'New York City' in the first set and loving 'St. Augustine' as the first set closer. I remember being super annoyed that the intermission was so long. I remember being bored during 'Opium'. But then, when they tore through 'Plane Crash' to end the second set, the room was electric. It was so easy to get caught up in the crowd, to completely give yourself over to the mass and just be in it. It was amazing.
moe. is a band that I have seen bunches and bunches of times, but that very first show is definitely one of the most memorable.
When: March 2, 2001
Where: Landmark Theater/Syracuse, NY
With: Ben, Adam
Of Note: first moe. show!!!, the nine hours of driving it took me to pick up Adam
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I went out with this boy Ben on and off for three years at the end of high school/beginning of college. Ben and I were young, impetuous, infatuated as you are at that age, and later incredibly destructive. We went on to become friends, until his next girlfriend didn't allow it anymore. (That always happens, right?) Anyway, Ben is also responsible for some of my live music obsession. Around the time we started dating, he lost God and found Phish. I suspect his parents blamed me for this, though, I really had nothing to do with it.
Anyway, it was my freshman year of college. I was at UB and Ben was still in Corning. I went home one week-end to visit and when I walked into his house, he said, "Stop. You have to hear this. You are going to LOVE it." And, he played moe.'s 'St. Augustine'. I know moe. purists will later vilify this song, but I was floored. I remember likening it to, "Phish meets Third Eye Blind and pop". I was smitten.
Ben got tickets for us to see moe. in Syracuse on the Friday of my spring break. We were going to take his best friend Adam with us, which meant that I needed to leave UB, drive to Houghton to pick up Adam, then drive to Corning where we'd meet Ben and drive to Syracuse. I must have had faulty directions or something because it took me FOREVER to get there. In any event, we finally made it to Corning and then Syracuse in plenty of time.
The room was hot. Before the show started they had crazy lounge versions of songs like, 'Closer' and 'Wrong Way'. I thought that was hilarious. I felt like it was FOREVER before the show started. But when it did.... I remember being enchanted with 'New York City' in the first set and loving 'St. Augustine' as the first set closer. I remember being super annoyed that the intermission was so long. I remember being bored during 'Opium'. But then, when they tore through 'Plane Crash' to end the second set, the room was electric. It was so easy to get caught up in the crowd, to completely give yourself over to the mass and just be in it. It was amazing.
moe. is a band that I have seen bunches and bunches of times, but that very first show is definitely one of the most memorable.
i remember you being obsessed with Moe!
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